Heartland Catholicism: How Faith and Migration in Rural America are Reshaping Parishes and Communities

by McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture

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Mon, Feb 27, 2023

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM EST (GMT-5)

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Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Professor and V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Iowa, spent years interviewing Iowans who work in the meatpacking industry, both native-born residents and recent migrants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Drawing on her recent book, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021), she digs deep below the stereotypes and reveals the grit and grace of a heartland that is a major global hub of migration and food production—and also, it turns out, of religion.

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